My favourite quotes from The Mythical Man-Month The Mythical Man-Month is an essay on Software Engineering and Project Management by Frederick Brooks based on his experiences at IBM while managing the development of OS/360. While he made mistakes he
linux List and test enabled OracleDB features using the commandline While automating the deployment and configuration of Oracle 12c installations, I've had a need to be able to detect and automatically disable certain features which require extra licensing fees. Some of these extra
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linux The R.A.T. 5 mouse and Linux I recently purchased a R.A.T. 5 since my previous mouse had failed to help me when I was at a shortage of ammo and within an inch of my life playing
linux DNS in Ubuntu + LXC I've been recently playing with LXC containers on a new Dedicated Server I'm going to migrate to shortly. While setting up LXC is a no brainer, and the containers are all able to
Talks Vint Cerf Lecture at UGent I've had the pleasure of attending a talk with Vint Cerf, an American Computer Scientist recognized as one of the fathers of the Internet. My understanding is that he had been invited by
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